Soulstu

Credit to Benji for the idea. For me it's 'I'll Hold You' - Frankie & Johnny - The best British soul intro ever - 2 bars of blistering tuba/trombone (?) and then beautiful sparkling chimes (twice) that then disappear followed by....well the rest of 'I'll Hold You', and it's not all that is it, really. or 'I Wanna Know' - John E Paul - another great British intro, then it all goes a bit jerky and uncomfortable ..exactly the same with The Sherrys 'Put Your loving Arms Around Me' / Little Joe Cook - great intro, then goes a bit 'stiff' what d'yer reck??

Humph, thought so... ta Pete!.. the lying buggers.

I've got a version of this on pale blue Philips that is, according to 45 Cat, supposedly 'the very rare Pitman NJ pressing'. Would this still be a £15-20 disc or is it worth owt? ps can't see any on Popsike

Just for a change I'm spinning some lovely mid tempo, mid 60s Tamla discs at the mo' - You're The One, That's What Love Is Made Of, Don't Mess With Bill, The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game - Smokey Robinson's the nuts isn't he!

For me it wasn't a big ticket event, or a niter or a dayer or live gig, or somewhere warm and exotic. It was a regular Friday night at Route 61 in Sheffield - a proper grass roots northern club do. Probably half way through the night and Tez the DJ finished his set with about half a dozen unbelievable records (IMO - Frank Dell, Harry Deal etc) and it was one of those occasions where everything clicked - I was in a room full of friends, with my soul mate Clare, great dance floor, dancing as well as I could, legs weren't aching, and it all made perfect sense - why it's such a big part of our lives and why we love it so much. If I experience that even once next year I'll be a happy bunny. Stu

Some of my red & black styrene Atlantics are rubbish!.... Barbara Lewis, TSU Toronadoes, Barbara Lynn, they're quiet, distorted, poor definition - and these are records that haven't been hammered. Anybody got any good styrene Atlantics?

Original Vinyl Only, Stephen…. I'll tell you if no one else will! edit: beat me to it Sean

Got to have the best quality/price ratio of any northern soul record!… up there with the very best IMO.

It's people like me as well Gaz. I'm buying vinyl again 'cos my missus bought me a deck for my 50th (not because of the film!) and I'm slowly replacing some of my 2nd issues/pressings with 1st issues (along with records that are new to me), so some of the records I'm buying are the bleedin' obvious.

Quittin' Time, nicks a little instrumental figure directly from Get Ready - just enough not to get sued. And don't forget the Green Onions organ break on C'mon and Swim I reckon we're scratching the surface here...

If he had lived imagine the music he would have made in the mid to late 60s!

That'd be a major blow Matt - it's not just the music, there's the science, historical docs all that... it's like food to me. Bin BBC3 instead - can't remember when I last watched that.

Will the DJ's have to 'pitch' the records up a bit? etc etc etc etc

This is why I'm happy to pay my licence fee. BBC4 music documentaries are the nuts!

The Seeds???? played at the Casino? I'd love to have heard that!… garage rock at niters - the new r'n'b?

Done. Nice, Nice, Baby.

Same experience as Jazz really, we go out every weekend around South Yorks / North Derbys - Notts etc and very very rarely see non-soulies gawping or trying to 'do the dance'. There are some who look as though they've never danced 'Northern' in their lives, but you can see them mouthing the words to songs that you wouldn't expect them to know, so.... On the few occasions I've seen the odd drunk, or non-soulie, they didn't really seem to be taking the Mick, they were watching and trying to have a go - in fact I was talking to one youngish lad at an all-dayer, who was a bit drunk and seemed to know nothing about N Soul but to be fair, he really liked what he was hearing and was fascinated by the dancing. So there could be a positive side to the younger non-soulies turning up and having a look....but for the late middle-aged 'motown morons' there's no hope. Maybe it's not as bad as you think Barney, you go to J36 and the like don't you?... I reckon we're OK for a while yet. Should be easy to spot the crap do's.

Tommy Dodson One Way Love, Charles Shefield both under 1:50 - there's more than you think. That's what I love about these records - they never outstay their welcome!

'Discontented'

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271673289036?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT I've been banging on about this record in another thread, cos I love it... Although this is pretty much my favourite northern soul record (hence the avatar) I understand it's not particularly rare and was never much of a floor filler back in the day... and today it's pretty much ignored. Am I missing something?... or are these kind of prices the norm for a record that no one's bothered about much? (and it's a VG+ with an edge warp).

These hundred and 80 odd posts kind of confirm that generally, yes we are indeed 'bovvered' about instrumentals!

Kev. does that mean it's failed forever? Surely due a spin - a great record is a great record... is a great record! PS is Leonard no other than Len Jewell Smith? I'm sure I heard that somewhere.

,,,and this, Georgie's storming version of the Spinners Sweet Thing. Heard it out on Friday Night - the floor was mine!!!!! (yeah right). Beautiful. How about a SS British Record Club?

Tony Owens - Nice tune! Let's go back a few years from that Peter!.... to 1967 (nurse!!!! smelling salts for Mr Nice!!!!!) Blue eyed northern soul at its very very best!

Yesteryear still going then Kev? Thought it was an early 70s thing.